Another Zionist "mistake" in Jenin

A woman in Jenin tried to save the life of young man shot during an Israeli invasion last Monday (27 November 2006) and ended up paying with her own life. During a time when the world is being told that Israel is observing a 'cease-fire', Israeli forces shot Mahmoud Abdul Razik Baker Nasser in front of the home of Fatima Mahmoud Ahmed Shriem in the northern part of the West Bank. Fatima was then shot while attempting to pull the young man, Mahmoud, to safety. She later died, with the cause of death being loss of blood. Israeli forces kept the area under siege for several hours, with the result that nobody could leave their homes and ambulances could not reach victims.

During this latest siege of the Jenin area, a number of Israeli soldiers had broken into homes in order to using them as cover for snipers. Members of the armed resistance from Qabatia tried to fend off the invaders, but had little success. A leader of the Salah Ed Deen Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, said that this is one of the tactics the Israelis have been re-employing as of late. "They hide inside a house and then open fire when no one knows they were there in the first place."

Fatima's husband, Mahmoud Hafez, said that his wife had heard the cries of the young man who lay injured at the gate of their home, adding that "she started screaming and rushed to save him. It was clear she was not a member of the armed resistance, so that cannot be the reason the Israelis use to explain this murder.”

The women of Qabatia Village, which lies just to the south of Jenin, sang for Fatima as they walked in her funeral procession. At the funeral, her husband had difficulty in holding back the tears, asking "Where is the 'calm', the 'cease-fire'... when they continue to kill in cold blood, leaving bodies to slowly bleed to death". His tears choked his words and he collapsed after saying, "The Israeli soldiers continued their shooting. They wouldn't stop."

Source: International Middle-East Media Center

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Swedish human rights worker subject of vicious attacked by Jewish extremists in Hebron

This vicious and unprovoked attack was perpetrated against a young woman who was simply trying to protect children from harassment on their way home from school. Apparently this is the way the run up to Universal Children's Day is "celebrated" by the illegal occupants of Hebron. Their behaviour towards the children and the human rights workers shows them up for what they are - nothing more than barbaric and hate-filled thugs fuelled by the delusions of grandeur bestowed upon them by a supremacist and fundamentally racist ideology. The article reproduced below tells the story....

A 19-year old Swedish human rights worker had her face slashed and cheekbone broken by a Jewish extremist in Hebron today. Earlier in the same day at least five Palestinians, including a 3-year-old child, were injured by other Jewish extremists who rampaged through Tel Rumeida hurling stones and bottles at local residents. Palestinian schoolchildren on their way home were also attacked. The Israeli army, which was intensively deployed in the area, did not intervene or attempt to stop the attacks.

Tove Johansson, who comes from Stockholm, walked through the checkpoint at Tel Rumeida with a small group of human rights workers accompanying Palestinian schoolchildren to their homes. They were confronted by around a hundred Jewish extremists who are reported to have chanted in Hebrew “We killed Jesus, we’ll kill you too!” — a taunt the settlers are reported to have been directing at international workers in Tel Rumeida all day.

After about thirty seconds of waiting at the checkpoint, a small group of very aggressive male Jewish extremists surrounded the international volunteers and began spitting at them, so much so that the volunteers described it as “like rain.” Then men from the back of the crowd began jumping up and spitting, while others from the back and side of the crowd kicked at the volunteers. The soldiers, who were standing at the checkpoint just a few feet behind the volunteers merely looked on as they were being attacked.

One settler then hit Tove on the left side of her face with an empty bottle, breaking it on her face and leaving her with a broken cheekbone. She immediately fell to the ground and the group of extremists who were watching began to clap, cheer, and chant. The soldiers, who had only watched until this point, then came forward and motioned at the settlers, in a manner which the volunteers described as “ok… that’s enough guys.”

The extremists, however, were allowed to stay in the area and continued watching and clapping as other human rights workers attempted to stem the flow of blood from the young woman’s face. Some even tried to take photos of themselves next to her bleeding face, while giving the camera a “thumbs-up” sign. At this point, a volunteer was taken into a police van and asked to identify who had attacked the group. The volunteer did this, pointing out three Jewish extremists who the police then took into their police vehicles. However, the extremists were all driven to different neighbouring areas and released almost immediately. When one of the three was released on Shuhada Street, the crowd that was still celebrating the woman’s injuries applauded and cheered.

A medic who is also a settler came to the scene about 15 minutes after the attack and instead of treating the young woman immediately began interrogating the volunteers as to why they were in Hebron. He refused to help the bleeding woman lying on the street in any way. Five minutes after he arrived, an army medic arrived and began treating the injured woman. When she was later put on a stretcher, the crowd again clapped and cheered. The injured woman, Tove, was taken to Kiryat Arba settlement and then to Hadassah Ein Keren hospital in Jerusalem.

Police officers at the scene then began threatening to arrest the remaining human rights workers if they did not immediately leave the area, despite the fact that they had done nothing illegal and had just been attacked.

The volunteers were later told by the police that they had not even taken the names of those who were identified as having carried out the attack and that one of the main assailants had simply told the police that he was due at the airport in two hours to fly back to France.

The incident was the latest attack by extremist Jews in Hebron. The small group of Khannist settlers in Tel Rumeida regularly attack and harass Palestinians in the area. The violence is also directed at international human rights workers who accompany Palestinians in an attempt to protect them from settler attack.

The settlers in Tel Rumeida encourage Jewish tourists to come to support them, as a way of making up for their small numbers. Today, hundreds had come from tours in Israel for a special event — many from overseas: France, England and the United States.

Edited from original article: ISM Hebron

By reproducing an edited version of the article originally posted on the International Solidarity Movement website it is not my intention to suggest that this sort of behaviour is representative of all Jewish people, nor that it is supported by all Jewish people, as this clearly is not the case. However, this is a significant part of what is Israel is and has become, and is a harsh daily reality for the Palestinian victims. The irrational hate manifested by these extremists can not be ignored or justified and needs to be both aired and addressed

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Barbarism in Bil'in

This is what happened at just one of the weekly non-violent demonstrations against the illegal theft of land at Bil'in.



This list of the casualties comes from the International Solidarity Movement site...

• Lymor Goldstein, an Israeli lawyer, shot with 3 rubber bullets at close range, with injuries to head and neck. He is currently undergoing surgery.
• Two villagers, El Haj Wa’el Fahene and Nimer Mustafa Abu Rahma were both shot with rubber bullets to their backs and legs.
• Gavin from UK, beaten
• Martin from Sweden, beaten
• Rina from Denmark, hit with a rifle butt on side of head
• Jonathon from Israel, shot with rubber bullet
• Uri a 20 year old from Israel, struck by rubber bullet
• Rojo Didier from France (43 years old), shot with rubber bullet in back and leg
• Jonas from USA, struck with rubber bullets on hip and leg
• Cheryl aged 45 from USA, struck with rubber bullet to the back
• Margaret from UK, struck by exploding sound grenade
• Yoshki, a 22 year old journalist from Japan, shot by rubber bullet
• Abudullah Abu Rahma, beaten

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We are NOT afraid

If Dame Mannigham-Buller is to believed, Britain is literally awash with Muslim terrorist cells. During a recent address, she made the claim that MI5 and the police were tackling 200 groups or networks totalling more than 1,600 identified individuals in the UK who were ‘actively engaged in plotting or facilitating terrorist acts’.

Those who are not already in a fear-induced stupor should ask themselves what the purpose of this announcement might be. What possible benefit could be derived from making this intelligence known? As a general rule, you don't go showing your cards to the opposing players, so why has Dame Manningham-Buller done so, and so readily? During her address to the Department of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary College in London, she claimed that she "was not seeking to be alarmist, and did not wish to stir up fear". However, the nature of the revelations and the follow-up from P.M. Anthony Blair suggests that they have precisely the objective of inducing fear and paving the way for yet more repressive legislation - moving Britain further towards becoming a de-facto totalitarian state.

I don't doubt that there are radicalised Muslims, both in Britain and elsewhere. I don't doubt that some of them might harbour ideas of using violence to further their aims or as a means of achieving redress for injustices, perceived or otherwise. However, the claimed scale of this so-called "terror network" simply does not add up. Those who were living in Britain during the 1980's will recall the death, destruction and havoc that was brought about by the IRA bombing campaign. I can remember reports at that time indicating that the number of active members of the IRA in Britain (as opposed to Northern Ireland) was in the tens, and most certainly not in the hundreds or thousands. So how come this "terror network" that is so taxing the resources of MI5 is so ineffective? If there are 1,600 or so identified individuals "actively engaged in plotting or facilitating terrorist acts" then why have they not been arrested, charged and tried?

Outside of the fantasy, make-belief world of Tony Blair and his sidekicks, there is far less in the way of day-to-day terrorist activity in Britain now than there was in the 1980's - yet the British public is subject to the relentless mantra that Britain is in fact a far more dangerous place now than it was then.

The as-yet unabated push to introduce ID cards to Britain is one of the objectives that will be well served by the disclosure of this "intelligence". A report by Mark Oliver in the Guardian around mid-October quotes Home Secretary John Reid as saying that...

a litmus test would be how the opposition parties decide to vote on forthcoming ID card legislation which would be crucial in fighting terrorism

Later in the same article, the reporter Mark Oliver goes on to point out that...

Critics of ID cards say they do not stop terrorism and point to attacks such as the train bombings in Madrid, where ID cards already exist

It is certainly true that there is more evidence to suggest that ID cards do nothing to prevent terrorism than there is evidence to the contrary. After all, all ID cards can be faked, given enough time - and that goes for the all-singing, all dancing, all spying wonder-ID proposed by the Blair government.

Speaking of Tony Blair, it is notable that in his response to the comments made by Dame Manningham-Buller he stated that the threat of radical islamic terrorism would "be with us for a generation", the prime minister said today Britain faced a "long and deep struggle" to combat the danger posed by terrorism. How on earth does he know that this threat will be "with us" for a generation, unless his posse have planned it that way?

This latest revelation is just another in a long line of fear-mongering brought to you by the same people who gave you the "Tanks At Heathrow" farce, the utterly absurd liquid bomb plots and a host of other fantastical stories all with the same purpose - to instill fear. Judging by the ceaseless and unrelenting nature of this campaign, it won't be long before internment without trial is extended, trial by jury is abolished and ID cards are foisted on the British public whether they like it or not. By then, of course, it will be too late, but at least the general public will know, in retrospect, who it was that posed the real threat to democracy and freedom - and I'll bet anything it won't be a handful of muslim terrorists.

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Remembering Deir Yassin

In the early morning of April 9th 1948, commandos from the Irgun, headed by Menachem Begin and members of the Stern Gang attacked the village of Deir Yassin and its 750 Palestinian residents, even though the village was located outside the area assigned by the United Nations to the new state of Israel.



Deir Yassin, known to be a peaceful and trouble-free village, had one strategic advantage that was to be its downfall. It was built on high ground on a corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and as such was earmarked for occupation under Plan Dalet.

The Haganah, the main Israeli defense force had given authorisation to the irregular terrorist forces of the Irgun to perform the takeover, working side-by-side with a rag tag bunch of terrorists known as the Stern Gang. Over 100 men, women, and children were murdered and fifty-three children were left orphaned, literally dumped along the wall of the old city.

This unprovoked massacre, and others carried out since in the name of Zionism, should never be forgotten. The organisation Deir Yassin Remembered was set up to ensure the memory of those who perished is kept alive and their suffering not forgotten.

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